The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-06-17
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has q splendid WINE cellar, hlled With
the cream Of the best vineyards, but
he never drinks anything stronger
than Apollinaris water himself.
John M. Dyer OF northern Yer
mont, who died recently, was an inn
mense man. over six feet tall and OF
800 pounds weight. 1t was necessary
60 make eefin for him. and no
hearse was large enough to carry it;
SO it was taken through the front win-
dow of the house and placed in an ex-
press wagon, which was barely large
enough TO receive it.
Dan Rice, the old clown, Indignantly
denies that he is a poor man. He
says: ''If to own 100000 acres OF
land in Texas and New Mexico, and
1000 in Calhoun county, Miss, and
1000 in Lincoln county, Ark, is to be
abiectly poor, then ! ampoor indeed" "
Helene, the only daughter OF Baron
Solomon Rothsohild OF Paris is going
to marry Captain Van Smessier, a
poor young man in the Belgian army.
However, HELENE and her husband
will not suffer. She has already an
immense fortune in her own right ana
her dot will be about $3o,000.000.
What is thought to be the shortest
courtship and quickest marriage on
record have just taken place at Green
River City. Frank Tracy went into a
restaurant for supper, where he was
taunted by one of the mattresses at
being bachelor. He at once pro.
posed, and within thirty minutes Miss
Hannah Wilson and Frank Tracy
were man and wife.
Mark Twain may not be much OF a
humorist, but he is good inancier.
In his reading tour with Cable, two
years ago, he paid the latter $500 a
week and expenses for four months
and cleared $4,000 on the deal.
A preacher of Salina. Neb., recently
made requisition for hali-fare ticket,
in accordance with the new regulations
of one of the Western roads which re-
quire an affidavit from ministers, to
the effect that they are regularly or
dained clergyman and engaged in no
other business or occupation. In the
Nebraska preachers certificate, after
the words IL am engaged in no other
business or occupation" was added
the phrase "But in preaching the un-
suchible richs OF Gods word.
Il
Clerical Gent ito fellow-passenger) =
"IIave you ever Thought that in the
midst OF life we are in death?" Eel.
low-P Passenger -"Often." "Have you
reflected that at any moment we may
be hurled into eternity, and that we
ought to be prepared for that eyent?"
"I've said so million times" us it
possible that / am speaking to a
brother clergyman2 / Judged from
your dress" sI'm an insurance
agent. Just let me show yoa few
figures
An Essex man has the biggest appe-
tite in ell Massachusetts,, if not in the
United States. He eats vast quanti,
ties Of food, but all to no purpose,
for he is growing weaker and thinner,
Doctors have tried in vain to cure him,
and once, at the advice ofone ofthem,
he abstained for ffty.two hours from
eating anything. But the suffering
| during that period was most intense,
and finding he could stand it no lon
ger, he started in and ate continuous
| " for twenty-seyen minutes as fast
SIS hecould bolt down the food. Then
he walked out into the yard, and, still
feeling hungry, immediately reentered
the house and repeated the operation
| of a few minutes before. At the end
of the second meal he was still hun.
cry but was afraid to eat any more,